It is not true, as a matter of fact, that mankind have always believed that all the successions of events were uniform and according to fixed laws.
As the notion of fixed laws of succession among external phenomena gradually establishes itself, the propensity to refer all phenomena to voluntary agency slowly gives way before it.
Moreover, in a material world like ours, if the forces of nature act according to fixed laws, a certain amount of suffering seems inevitable.
They described Him as Unchangeable; the same at all times, ruling nature by fixed laws, and with Whom a change of purpose is impossible.
It is not true as a matter of fact, that mankind have always believed that all the successions of events were uniform and according to fixed laws.
Government by the one scientific man is the true government 268 Fixed laws, limiting the scientific Governor, are mischievous, as they would be for the physician and the steersman.
Side-note: Fixed laws, limiting the scientific Governor, are mischievous, as they would be for the physician and the steersman.
Absurdity of determining medical practice by laws, and presuming every one to know it 269 Government by fixed laws is better than lawless government by unscientific men, but worse than lawless government by scientific men.
It will never do to say that they could not have been produced by a cause operating differently from a system of fixed laws so long as we reason from the hypothesis of the existence and attributes of a Supreme Being.
Even Reid allows that there is a tendency to assume volition where it does not exist, and that the belief in it has its sphere gradually limited, in proportion as fixed laws of succession among external objects are discovered.
Social phenomena, however, being phenomena of human nature in masses, must, as human nature is itself subject to fixed laws, obey fixed laws resulting from the fixed laws of human nature.
Are the actions of men, and therefore of societies, governed by fixed laws, or are they the result either of chance or of supernatural interference?
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